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Mon, 26 Sep 2011 18:00:00 -0400Jon Terbush
<p><img style="float:right;" src="http://static4.businessinsider.com/image/4daf12944bd7c83127190000/howard-dean.jpg" border="0" alt="Howard Dean" /></p><p>The long crawl of presidential nominating contests affords plenty of time for candidates to fizzle, self-destruct, or drop out. Gaffes, scandals, and even tears can sink a campaign well before the party conventions gather to pick the nominees.</p>
<p>Following Rick Perry's <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/despite-missteps-perry-still-leads-gop-for-nomination-2011-9">shaky campaign rollout</a>, some commentators are beginning to wonder if the Texas Governor is headed toward that same fate himself. He has plenty of time to recover, and for now, he remains the early frontrunner for the nomination.</p>
<p>But if he continues to slide, he could wind up joining the ranks of some enormous campaign flops.</p><h3>Ed Muskie and the snowflake tears (1972)</h3>
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<p><p>Maine Senator Ed Muskie started off as the clear frontrunner in the 1972 Democratic primary, but he faltered following a surprisingly strong showing by rival George McGovern in Iowa and New Hampshire. With his campaign already reeling, Muskie held a press conference in front of the offices of New Hampshire's largest newspaper, the <em>Union-Leader</em>, to condemn an attack the paper had made on his wife's alleged drinking problem.</p>
<p>Amid heavy snowfall, Muskie appeared to lose his composure and cry &mdash; though he later claimed the tears were really&nbsp; snowflakes melting on his face. His campaign never recovered.</p></p>
<br/><br/><h3>Howard Dean's 'I Have a Scream' speech (2004)</h3>
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<p><p>After a poor showing in the Iowa caucus, Democratic presidential hopeful Howard Dean delivered a rousing concession speech encouraging his supporters to press on. But the bombastic Dean, who had a sore throat from a lingering flu, became wildly animated as he spoke, and he concluded the speech with a raspy scream that became an instant viral sensation.</p>
<p>The final word on the Dean campaign was ultimately his own: Yeargh!'</p>
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<br/><br/><h3>Gary Hart: Too much monkey business (1988)</h3>
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<p><p>Immediately after Hart entered the 1988 Democratic primary race as the frontrunner, rumors emerged that he'd had an extramarital affair. Hart denied the allegations until the <em>Miami Herald</em> obtained a photo of him sitting on a yacht named "Monkey Business" with a model on his knee.</p>
<p>Hart launched his campaign on April 13, and ended it less than one month later on May 8. He rejoined the race that December, but his campaign never caught on.</p>
<p>That campaign was actually Hart's second big flameout in as many presidential elections. In 1984, he was on the ropes, needing a win in New Jersey on Super Tuesday to keep any hope of the nomination within reach. Those hopes vanished when Hart joked at a campaign event in California that while his wife had been campaigning there, he'd been handling toxic waste in New Jersey. That aside didn't play well back East, and Hart lost the state despite having once led there by double-digits.</p></p>
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